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Ne?/ York 
Indiana 
IMPORTED CABBAGE WORM (Pieris rapae L.) 
Weekly News Letter, N. Y. State Coll . Agr. (May): L^r 
numbers of eg^s were being laid in cabbage seed beds in 
Ononda^e County by the last week in May. 
J. J. Davis (May 22): The cabbage worm is damaging cabbage 
at Sheridan and Peru. 
Minnesota 
Mississippi 
K. A. Kirkpatrick (May 9): The imported cabbage worm is 
very abundant in Hennepin County, 
R. W. Harned and assistants (May): This insect is doing 
some damage in Jones and Jasper Counties, and is quite 
destructive at Lucedale. 
DIAMOND-BACK MOTH ( Plutella maculi- e nnis Curtis) 
Utah 
Connecticut 
G. F. Knov.'lton (May 2): An adult was observed ovipositing 
on young cabbage sets at Farmington. 
CABBAGE MAGGOT ( Hylemyia brassicae Bouche) 
R. B. Friend (May 24): There is an average abundance of 
cabbage mag-rots at New Haven. 
Montana 
Mississip-oi 
W. B.Mabee (May 20): Cabbage maggots are doing sore damage 
than usual in Ravalli County. 
HARLEQUIN BUG ( Murgantia histrionica Hahn) 
R. W. Harned and assistants (May)j Reports of mccerate 
abundance have been received from scattered localities in the 
State and of great abundance from Rosedale. 
Alabama 
Texas 
J. M. Robinson (May 24): The harlequin bug is very abundant 
at Auburn. 
F. L. Thomas (May 22): The harlequin bug is less abundant 
than usual at College Station, no complaints having been 
received this season. 
Virginia 
Indiana 
CABRAC-j, APHID ( Brevicorvne brassicae L.) 
G. E. Gould (May 22): The cabbage aphid is unusually 
abundant on seed kale and may reduce the yield by 50 per cent 
Only a few lice are found on the early cabbage crop. 
J. J. Davis (May 22): The cabbage aohid was abundant and 
destructive to cabbage at Bourbon May 18. 
